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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Saban Forum

Haim Saban, right, interviewing Jared Kushner at a forum on Israeli affairs he hosts each year in Washington, D.C., December 3, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
December 5, 2017, 6:14 am
Mum on peace plan, Kushner leaves everyone guessing, or scratching heads
Experts wonder if whatever the US administration is putting together will be palatable to Palestinians or Israelis, and why it decided to now toss Jerusalem’s status into the mix
By Ron Kampeas
White House adviser Jared Kushner addresses the Saban Forum in Washington, DC, on December 3, 2017. (YouTube screenshot)
December 3, 2017, 8:45 pm
Kushner: Israeli-Palestinian peace needed for wider Middle East stability
President’s adviser, son-in-law insists Trump hasn’t made up his mind on embassy move, says he’s ‘optimistic’ about a deal, highlights negotiator Greenblatt’s real estate expertise
By Eric Cortellessa
White House adviser Jared Kushner addresses the Saban Forum in Washington, DC, on December 3, 2017. (YouTube screenshot)
December 3, 2017, 7:58 pm
As deadline looms, Kushner says Trump undecided on Jerusalem and embassy moves
The president’s son-in-law and point man on the Middle East says Israeli-Palestinian conflict needs to be resolved to achieve stability in region
By Eric Cortellessa
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Saban Forum in Washington, DC, in a video message. December 3, 2017 (YouTube screenshot)
December 3, 2017, 5:16 pm
PM likens Iran to Nazi Germany in its ‘commitment to murder Jews’
But, speaking to Saban Forum, Netanyahu says Israel will be ‘first in line’ to restore ties after Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime falls
By Raphael Ahren
Former prime minister and defense minster Ehud Barak speaks during an event to launch the Reporty App in Tel Aviv, March 16, 2016. (Photo by Flash90)
December 2, 2017, 8:04 am
In DC, Barak says moving the embassy won’t be ‘a consequential event’
‘I like the idea very much,’ former PM says amid reports Trump may approve relocation, recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. ‘I regret it didn’t [happen] 10, 20 or 65 years ago’
By Eric Cortellessa
Jared Kushner speaks t a White House meeting in Washington, June 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
December 1, 2017, 5:41 am
In rare public remarks, Kushner to discuss peace push at DC confab
In conversation with Clinton supporter Haim Saban, Trump’s senior adviser will speak about efforts to resume Israeli-Palestinian talks
By Eric Cortellessa
Haim Saban at a media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 8, 2009. (AP/Nati Harnik)
January 5, 2017, 9:53 am
Haim Saban ‘deeply disturbed’ by US abstention on UN resolution
Israeli-American TV mogul, a longtime Democratic donor, calls Kerry speech ‘one-sided,’ implores Obama to veto new anti-Israel measures
By Alexander Fulbright
The US embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 14, 2016. (Flash 90)
December 7, 2016, 3:09 am
Online petition calls on Trump to move US Embassy to Jerusalem
Orthodox Union urges president-elect to keep campaign promise, recognize Israel’s ‘chosen capital’
By JTA
Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the Saban Forum in Washington DC on December 4 2016. (Ralph Aswang, via JTA)
December 6, 2016, 6:49 am
Full text of John Kerry’s remarks at Saban Forum 2016
Outgoing secretary of state slams the settlement enterprise as designed ‘to block the peace’
Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the Saban Forum in Washington DC on December 4 2016. (Ralph Aswang, via JTA)
December 4, 2016, 11:29 pm
Jeremiah Kerry laments an Israel that wouldn’t heed his warnings
A better, safer future is available, the secretary argues in a bitter valedictory appearance, but the settlers and their champions are destroying it
By David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Saban Forum in Washington via video link on Sunday, December 4, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)
December 4, 2016, 9:03 pm
Netanyahu: Notwithstanding Obama or Trump, Israel does ‘what it wants’ on settlements
PM says he plans to bring up ‘bad’ Iran deal with president-elect, stop Tehran getting the bomb; claims Israel’s press is uniquely critical of him
By Eric Cortellessa and Tamar Pileggi
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman addresses the Saban Forum in Washington DC on December 2, 2016. (Courtesy)
December 3, 2016, 6:51 am
Liberman plays down centrality of Trump’s pledge to move US embassy to Jerusalem
‘We’ve seen this promise in every election,’ defense minister says. ‘It’s very important, but we have other issues’
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
Haim Saban speaks at the Friends Of The Israel Defense Forces 2014 Western Region Gala at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 6, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Tiffany Rose/WireImage)
December 3, 2016, 2:55 am
Haim Saban: Keith Ellison ‘an anti-Semite and anti-Israel individual’
DNC chair hopeful would be ‘a disaster for relations with the Jewish community and the Democratic Party,’ says Jewish billionaire
By Eric Cortellessa
John Kerry at the Saban Forum, December 5, 2015 (YouTube Screenshot)
December 7, 2015, 4:42 pm
What John Kerry should have told the Saban Forum
Op-ed: We were short-sighted, hesitant, weak. We failed to create the climate in which you in Israel could take the steps you need to take to separate from the Palestinians. I hope my successors will do better
By David Horovitz
Illustrative photo of demonstrators chanting pro-Islamic State slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, June 16, 2014. (AP, File)
December 7, 2015, 1:24 pm
What threats may come
IS in Israel, IS in Ramallah, IS in your menorah — the qualms come hot and heavy as Washington holds on to a ‘lie’ of a hope that a two-state solution is possible
By Joshua Davidovich
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